INVERCAULD

Date1874

Object NameCLIPPER

MediumWOOD

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 222' 1" x breadth 36' x depth 21'
gross tonnage: 1311 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001708

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: John Humphrey & Co., Inches, Aberdeen.
Official Number: 70437
Subsequent Name: ORION (1898)

Fate: Left Flinders for Newcastle and went missing in November 1901.

Propulsion: Sail
Description: Ship rigged clipper, two decks, three masts, ellipse stern, carvel built, no gallery, ¾ male figurehead (highlander), wood framework composite construction.

Owners:
13/11/1874: Aberdeen registry opened for subscribing owners;
Richard Connon, shipowner, Aberdeen and Alexander Rhind Dyer, shipowner, Aberdeen, joint owners of 40 shares; George Milne, banker, Aberdeen, 8 shares; Robert Phillips, master mariner, Aberdeen, 8 shares; James Wood, merchant, Banff, 8 shares.
14/06/1875: Alexander Dyer dies. 40 shares to Richard Connon.
15/09/1876: James Wood sells 4 shares to George Milne.
03/06/1878: Richard Connon dies. George Milne, Aberdeen (gentleman) executor.
08/04/1879: Robert Phillips mortgages 8 shares to secure £450 and interest at 6% to
Charles Cavendish Russel Fisher, 4 Bedford Terrace, Streatham (gentleman)
06/05/1880: Mortgage discharged.
20/01/1886: Aberdeen registry closed. “Vessel sold to foreigners (Norwegian).”
(Aberdeen Register of Ships Register (Aberdeen City Archives), 4 (CE87/11/13) folio191.)
1888-90: Owner O. B. Sörensen, Arendal, Norway. (Lloyd's)
1892-97: J. Börresen, Grimstad, Norway.
1898-01: Jens Olsen, Grimstad, Norway.
1901-03: Rob. Mattson, Mariehamn, Russia.

Masters:
1888: Master B. J. Nilsson
1890: Master Pettersen
1891-97: Master C. Ulstrup
1901: Master Haggblom

General History:
28/09/1874: Launched and named by Miss Phillips, the captain’s daughter. The last vessel to be launched into the Upper Dock.
02/10/1901: Left Flinders Bay in Western Australia loaded with timber en route for Newcastle, and vanished without trace. Crew consisted of 15 men.

31/03/1885 and 06/08/1885:
For sale 23 April by Kellock & Co., Brokers, Liverpool, the very superior A1 clipper ship INVERCAULD, 1247 tons register. Built under special survey at Aberdeen under a roof 1874. Is salted and copper fastened, was sheathed with yellow metal July 1883. Carries over 1700 tons deadweight, is absolutely found in stores and ready of immediate employment. Has just discharged cargo of Java sugar in excellent order. Lying in East Float, Birkenhead. Particulars from Messrs James Aiken Jun. & Co., Aberdeen.
(Liverpool Mercury)

Notes: State Library of South Australia. Image No. PRG1373/2/14
The “INVERCAULD” at Port Adelaide. Catalogued as 1864 vessel, but under review and more likely to be the 1874 ship as the photographer did not start until 1865.
Barque rigged by 1898.